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<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>Loquacious Etymologist is a tool for randomly generating words that look and sound like they could be part of an existing language. Language in this case is not limited to natural languages, but could include, for example, English names. Languages are created by analysing a list of words from that language. It only really works on European-style languages, or possibly other languages when Romanized, as it uses the pattern of vowels and consonants to deconstruct words.</p>

<p>To start creating a language, create a new language with File-&gt;New (if needed, the program opens with a blank new language), then use File-&gt;Import Words... to start importing word-lists. Word lists should be UTF-8 encoded, and the words should be separated by whitespace. Once the word lists have been imported, you can save the language to a file, and load it from that file to generate more words using it.</p>

<p>You can also specify which characters qualify as vowels. If you change this list for a language with some words already-imported, the imported words will be re-processed. You can also choose to ignore diacritical marks when determining the vowel-ness of a letter, which means that (for example) e and é will be handled identically.</p>

<p>Once you've constructed the language to your satisfaction, the "Generate Words" button will generate random words. The number of random words and the number of syllables (vowel clusters) in the generated words can be specified. If you find some words you like, you can copy them to the clipboard by selecting them in the list and using Edit-&gt;Copy Words.</p>

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